Month: December 2011

Love and kindness

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.
– Grace Hansen

Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.
– Janis Joplin, 1943 – 1970

If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
– Maya Angelou

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
– Pearl Bailey, 1918 – 1990

People sometimes get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there’s the freedom of not caring what people think.
– Candice Bergen

The only thing to do is to hug one’s friends tight and do one’s job.
– Edith Wharton, 1862 – 1937

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
– Mother Teresa, 1910 – 1997

Quotes – Music

Good music is wine turned to sound.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850 – 1919

Music doesn’t have to be your livelihood to make your ‘hood lively.
– Mardy Grothe

Music … will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906 – 1945

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.  <— love this one
– Hector Berlioz, 1803 – 1869

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
– Rebecca West, 1892 – 1983

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist’s mind and guide his hand.
– Robert Genn